Questions tagged [google-panda-algorithm]
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Drop in traffic due to duplicate content? [duplicate]
I have a blog post on my site, and then a few months later I got asked by another (much larger) website, if they could put that same post on their website as a guest post.
Seeing as their site is ...
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Can deleting less visited content help recover from Google's algorithmic penalties?
A health website has 3,000 articles, but about 1,000 of them get less than 10 visits per month. This is mainly because the writers have decided to write about topics that are too hard to rank. The top ...
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Could my website be penalized for listing videos in a popup via the YouTube API?
I have an 11 years old lyrics website and it has the biggest archive for my region. Before September 4, 2013 it had nearly 16.000 unique visitors per day and was in the first 3 SERP results for main ...
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My webpage has been removed from search results [closed]
A page of my site is removed from search results! Until 2 or 3 days ago this web page was the second link in google search results while searching for specific keywords.
But last day I realized that ...
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Recover large forum from Google 'Metafilter Penalty'?
We have been one of those forums affected on Nov 16, 2012 (yes, 3 years ago!) with a very big drop overnight (from 800.000 unique visitors before that to 400.000 now).
Since that time we were not ...
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Does 'thin-content' content on some pages affect overall site SEO?
I have an UGC Q&A site. Due to it's nature is inevitable to see some 'thin' or low quality content in some posts.
Will there be any sitewide impact in SEO for the other high quality pages? If yes ...
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When removing poor quality content, should it be removed slowly for SEO, or all at once?
I own a website where students share notes, articles, exams and exercises. Most of this content has bad quality, poor titles and spelling errors, but the website received a lot of traffic back in the ...
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Is Google consider mobile phone specifications as copied content?
I have created a mobile niche blog a few weeks ago.
I am going to add a section to display mobile phone specifications.
Are those pages consider as copied content?
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Samsung ...
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How to deal with Internal Near-Duplicates for keywords with ranges?
I'm creating pages to consolidate and display public data for individual physical properties.
The problem is, some properties have multiple valid addresses (the keyword). Some times these are ranges, ...
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What are best valid offpage SEO techniques? as per google's latest algorithm [closed]
I am trying to find and use offpage SEO techniques for my website but most of search telling me that google has updated SEO algorithm and some offpage techniques now google is considering as SPAM.
So ...
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Is Panda Penalty a ranking score, or just boolean?
Is there a score for Panda, like there is for Pagerank, or are you either in the panda penalty or not?
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Google Panda algorithm - site wide or url
I recently attended Pubcon, and was told that the Panda algorithm was for each page/url. Does anyone know which is true, is Panda a site wide penalty or just a page penalty?
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How can I resolve google wrong synonom understanding in queries
When someone specificies my site name (which isn't a dictionary word) in a search query, I would expect it to be very easy to be ranked at the top of the search results, and up until recently that was ...
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Panda 4: Reducing #indexed pages. How much is enough?
I've been hit by panda 4 (40% decrease). I didn't see any change during panda 1-3. From what I've read it and when compared to my site, the change is probably due to the fact that I have over 30M ...
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Could too many backlinks from subdomains result in a search engine penalty?
My website http://compare.buyhatke.com got hit by the recent algorithmic updates. What I could find out as of now is that I have 3-4 services hosted on different subdomains and we keep a constant ...
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Can't recover from Panda/Penguin/Zoo? Think to start a new site
So I got hit by Panda/Penguin before two years. My site was completely white-hat, and it was wallpaper related site. Such type of sites have no much text, but I have tried to describe every wallpaper ...
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Google re-started caching my website
I have a website which was recently penalized by Google and all of a sudden it stopped caching my pages. After some research, I found out that issue was due to too many duplicate titles as depicted in ...
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Will duplicate articles with links in them pointing to my site harm my SEO after Google's Penguin 2.1 update?
After Google's latest updates, previous methods of link building aren't working, like social bookmarking, comment, forum profiles, etc... Therefore I started cleaning up some spammy or low-quality ...
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Dropped impression 25 days after restructure
Our website is a non English property related website (moshaver.com) which is similar to rightmove.co.uk. On September 2012 our website was adversely affected by Panda causing our Google incoming ...
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Should category pages be noindex regarding panda?
I have seen this question, but I believe the situation has changed a lot with the recent Panda updates.
I have created a set of category pages to facilitate navigation on my site. It is a proper ...
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Tackling thin content on an images gallery
We run an images gallery as part of our site, however we have over 8,000 images and every image has a separate HTML page of its own to display the image caption, related image and comments from users ...
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Using post title and file name as alt text?
There is this plugin in WordPress called "SEO Friendly Images," it replaces the alt text in all of the images on my site with the combined version of the file name and post title.
For example if the ...
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.htaccess redirection for my domain?
I have a site that has been hit hard with Penguin and Panda. So hard I have put up another domain and installed a CMS and rewritten the content the page has a good PageRank but was hit hard with ...
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Panda-struck Diagnosis
I have been reading about the Panda Update going to be on a rollout launch in the year to come. As a webmaster, how do I know for sure that my website has been struck by the Panda update? Does a ...
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When should a webmaster call it a day POST Penguin & Panda?
A friend of mine, an ex-client whose site I designed, has a problem with his ranking and I want your personal spin on his situation. It'll help if I recall some of his site history.
Basically for 10 ...
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do we have to add/remove a trailing slash for pagination page numbers in the url. how seo considers that?
My module is paginated. I want to either add a trailing slash or remove a trailing slash.
For now i am thinking of adding a trailing slashes to all URLS.
What will be the effect on adding a trailing ...
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Is a backlink with a duplicate description and title from a news site bad for SEO?
I have a blog with over a thousand posts. I have posted some of those to a news aggregator site and included the same preview photo and description that I used for it on my own site and the link to ...
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Is there a significant hit to a non .com TLDs exact match domain (EMD) names after Google's Panda update? [duplicate]
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Does server location or TLD affects SEO
In this article, there is a good overview of exact match domain names and how they affect SEO after Google's Panda update.
The last ...
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Site has 300+ inbound do follow links, they once all showed up in webmaster but now dont
I under took a link building project on a site, in total around 300 do follow links where made, arictle submissions, directory listings, posts in dofollow forums ect ect built and indexed over a ...
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Multiple country-specific domains or one global domain [duplicate]
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How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization?
My company currently has its main (English) site on a .com domain with a .co.uk alias. In addition, we have ...
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Significant drop in SERPs on 12th November 2011
Earlier this year I decided to have a look at the SEO of our website. We noticed almost immediately that we dropped significantly in the SERPs for the keyword 'probiotics' (plural) on the 12th ...
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What effect(s) does Google's Panda 2.5 update have on new websites in the SERP?
I recently launched 3 websites (within the past 7-10 months) that had been steadily increasing in the rankings on Google search up until this past weekend, when I noticed a huge drop across most of my ...
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Syndicated blog content and search engines: helpful or harmful?
Against my advice, we've started buying blog content from a syndicator. The content is not unique, and searching for quoted phrases shows this content in use on a few dozen other blogs. My initial ...
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Proper way to create and work with a subdomain?
My site got effected by Panda, and I am trying to see if making a subdomain would work.
The site is comehike.com, and I created a subdomain which is currently empty at hiking.comehike.com
I have a ...
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De-indexing pages and checking with Google's site: command
I am trying to de-index a certain url from google, but for some reason it just isn't working.
I added this snippet:
<meta name="googlebot" content="noindex"/>
To this page:
http://www....
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Getting de-penalized from Google Panda?
My site was hit by Google Panda on June 16th. After that I did everything I could to de-index and de-link the bad content.
According to some reports, the google panda algorithm was run again on July ...
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Avoid penalties for duplicate (multilanguage) shared hosting
My concern is about SEO. Now let me explain the scenario.
I am making a 3 languages website. The development is alright, but I was targeting local customers with one domain, and international (...
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